Morning Star

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Melancholy.-Never did we record a more painful and shocking accident than one which occurred recently in Huntington Township, in this county. We understand a woman in that township was engaged in boiling soap, a few days since, and a pot of the boiling fluid, falling from the crane, scalded three of her children so badly, as to cause their deaths a few hours after. If any thing could add to the pain of the mother's heart under such circumstances, it would be the fact that she was an eye witness to the particulars of the excruciating occurrence, which we understand were as follows: Two of her children were lying upon the floor before the fire, and their mother was sitting near them, with a third child an infant, in her lap. Something about the crane gave way, and the kettle falling, one of the feet caught upon the back-log, turned it over, and threw its contents upon the floor, near the two children, which passed over them in one boiling wave. In a moment of fright and horror, forgetting the child she was holding, the mother sprang to the two upon the floor, and the third, falling from her lap, fell into the liquid, and shared the fate of the others. We understand they lingered in a most piteous and suffering condition, until the following day, when death relieved them of their agony. The afflicted mother has the deepest sympathy of her neighbors, but this can do but little to soothe the feelings excited by a loss so great, under circumstances so painful.

Wyoming Republican